Mark Twain, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, 1865 Another short story by Mark Twain, this work is told from the perspective of a narrator retelling a bartenders story. The story could be considered a somewhat whimsical tale of a gambler Jim Smiley. The bartender simply tells the story to the narrator without anyContinue reading “The Celebrated Jumping Frog”
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The Fundamental Interconnectedness of all Things
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Pocket Books (1988) Identifying an author from a particular style of writing is perhaps never easier than in the case of Douglas Adams. I have previously read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency very much fits within this same niche. An eclectic mixContinue reading “The Fundamental Interconnectedness of all Things”
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